Auction Catalogue

4 July 2001

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Miniature Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 504

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4 July 2001

Hammer Price:
£320

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (3833 Serjt. E. Nevison, L.N. Lanc. Regt. M.I.) nearly extremely fine £300-350

Sergeant E. Nevison was dangerously wounded on 28 July 1901 at Klein Jagersfontein, and died of wounds 3 days later on 1 August. This was a small action which took place on the night of 27/28 July 1901 in which a party of men under Colonels Rochfort and Lowry Cole attacked a Boer laager, capturing 24 prisoners, including Commandant Myburg.